By the way, I forgive you
| Brandi Carlile
By the way, I forgive you
By the Way, I Forgive You is the sixth studio album by Brandi Carlile, released on February 16, 2018. "The Joke" was released as the album's lead single. The album was co-produced by Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings. The album art is an original painting by Scott Avett. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
2018 - By the Way, I Forgive You is the necessary next step in a shrewdly managed career. Brandi Carlile requires no forgiveness from us .
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NPR
With the squalling urgency of her songwriting and the serrated exertion of her vocal attack, she's accentuated the emotional labor involved in speaking truth, confronting sources of pain and resisting alienation.
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Rolling Stone
2018 - a moving and righteous piece of Americana-infused pop
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Slant Magazine
2018 - By the Way, I Forgive You frames Carlile’s gnarled roots-rock and folksy storytelling in grand orchestral arrangements.
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Variety
2018 - Dig in to “By the Way…” and you might even forgive yourself, if you’re a latecomer, for not discovering Carlile sooner.
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Paste Magazine
2018 - Brandi Carlile has always aimed high. On By the Way, I Forgive You, she aims higher than ever before, this time with her best songs and exquisite production on her side.
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Spin
2018 - I like the idea of Carlile more than I do her final product. In that idea, there is often an excellent move here or there, and enough of a hook to convince me to listen to the next album.
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Country Exclusive
2018 - For those of you more concerned with finding good music, there are some incredible songs here, and Brandi Carlile is certainly a forced to be reckoned with vocally.
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All Music
2018 - By the Way I Forgive You is a different beast than its predecessor, a record with more texture, shade, and ambiguity: it is clearly the work of a maturing artist and it's all the richer for it.
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Refinery29
2018 - She's got the voice, she's got the songs, she's got the message.
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Relix
2018 - a set of 10 wonderfully crafted, elegantly sung folk and country tunes—fans will expect nothing less
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AXS
2018 - Great music can do a lot of things. It can give voice to those who have none. It can give words to emotions that are difficult to explain. It can wrap hard truth into a more palatable musical package. In the case of By the Way, I Forgive You, it does all of those things with a grace that only one of the best could pull off.
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College Media Network
2019 - If you are going through a rough time, this music will pick you up.
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The Musical Hype
2018 - There’s not a bad song to be found, and Brandi Carlile sounds amazing from the start to finish.
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Curator Magazine
What she uncovers in these 10 tracks is the truth that many of us—particularly in the peculiar sub-culture that is white evangelicalism—spend our whole lives avoiding: The only way out, is through.
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Lexgo
2018 - This is the record where all of her narrative steadfastness, all of the country/Americana sensibilities that inform her melodies and all of that gale force singing converge. The results are pretty much atomic.
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Austin Chronicle
2018 - Her powerful swells peak measured and controlled as she steels against complicated relationships with a graceful nuance and clear confidence.
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Highway Queens
2018 - a juggernaut of a record, hurtling straight for the gut. Carlile has produced an enthralling and exhilarating album which will be hard to forget.
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The Cornell Daily Sun
2018 - reminds me of a combination of Joni Mitchell’s mastery of storytelling mixed with Dolly Parton’s simple but piercing melodies. The album is an amalgamation of bluegrass, gospel, and folk with each song featuring a little something different.
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Mother Church Pew
She has reached outside of herself this time, and instead of reaching for the stars she has encapsulated them and made part of her universe.
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The Alternate Root
moves confidently through a soundscape that knows no particular allegiance to a style while blending Folk, Americana, and Rock’n’Soul into the musical foundations for the stories
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Crypti Rock
2018 - Navigating extraordinary talent and an intense spotlight of success, the Washington native lets nothing jade her soulful Americana-Folk Rock.
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The ED Blog
2018 - dark but not depressing and deeply personal but intensely relatable
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MXDWN
2018 - Overriding all of its technical merits, it is a jarringly real album. Listen to it – closely – then listen to it again and again. It will not leave you, and you should not want it to.
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The Hawk's Herald
2018 - a great modern folk record, which I would recommend to anyone looking to broaden their music taste
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Speakers in Code
2018 - This album is great because it represents a natural evolution of a supremely talented artist who has been releasing "next level" albums for some time.
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The Sentry
2018 - a masterful showcase of Carlile’s abilities and has the potential to become an instant classic
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Crunchy Jams
2018 - from her previous album, it is quite a bit slower, it flows better and Carlile goes back to her vocal roots. It is also quite a bit more bittersweet than previous albums
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Artsvark
2018 - combines the strengths of both the quieter and louder approaches, giving it a significant impact – it sounds immediately persuasive – on the very first spin
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Out From the Pine Box
2018 - a quiet but masterful album from Brandi Carlile that both plays to her strengths while also developing and evolving her sound and musicality
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Wannabe
beauty captured in sound waves. There are so many goosebump inducing moments that stop you in your tracks, pull the needle back to play over and over again.
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The Shotgun Seat
2018 - Even if you’ve heard Brandi Carlile before, you’ve never heard her quite like this. Produced by Dave Cobb, this is a triple threat of an album, showcasing lush, elegant production, great lyricism, and an artist who’s more in command of her voice than ever before.
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